neil: adam, i love you dearly, but i don't remember you focusing on the positives with george bush being president, but i' getting old. >> i don't rememb either. >> the economy's 2%, and even if you want to paint it, it would take us eight or nine years to be back to the employment weather during the highs of the last administration. to get to 4%, it takes that long to get all the jobs back. people n't wait that long. >> ift never moves from this level -- kneeling kneel it's been -- neil: it's been a long time. i mean, we shouldn't -- averaging it out, and if this is the new normal, you know, less than normal, and this iss good as it gets, maybe for good awhile as it gets, i can understand why companies sort of, you know, pull thei horns in. >> yeah, the new normal, neil, let's celebte mediocrity. in the united states? neil: care. , i built a college career on that. >> so did i. that gets you through, but i want more of what adam is smoking in california, neil. he's talking about housing should recover banks should legend. those are hopey things we can't count on to grow the economy. we